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(ModeL) G.,.0. WARREN.

GAME.

Patented Dec. 5. 1882,

' ATTORNEYS.

Lilhagrlphur. Washingtcn. o. c

UNrrE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. \VARREN, OF FRYEBURG, MAINE.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 268,577, dated December 5, 1882.

I Application filed October 17, 1882. (ModeLl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE WARREN, of Fryeburg, in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved vided with a series of rows of apertures into which pegs are passed, according to the num bers ofdice thrown by the players,which standard is secured on a base provided with aper'- tures for receiving the pegs when the game is not in use. On the base truncated cones or cylinders having recesses in the upper ends are secured, into which recesses the dice are placed when not in use. The dice-cups are placed over the truncated cones or cylinders when not in use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure represents a perspective view of my new game.

On a base, A,'a standard, B, is secured, which is provided on opposite sides with fifteen apertures, I), each aperture being provided with a numeral, the numerals running from the bottom to the top.. The difierent sidesof the standard are provided with different colors. The base A is provided with twenty apertures, a, arranged in sections of ten each on the two halves of the base, as shown. Twenty pegs, G, are provided, which fit into the apertures a and b- The pegs are divided into two groups of ten each, the pegs of each group having a differentcolor. Two truncated cones, D, each provided with a recess in the upper end, are secured on t-hebaseA. Two dice, F, are placed in the recesses, and the dicecups E are placed over the truncated cones for the purpose of holding the cups in place on the base, and the diceirrthe recesses of the cones when the game is notin use. The base-apertures a are for use only to hold the pins 0 conveniently at hand while playing the game,

, and the dicemay be thrown from the boxes E upon the table on which the base A rests.

The game is played as follows. The game can be played in two different ways.

Game 1. The standard is placed between the I players with the apertures b at right angles to the players, so that each player can see the moves of the other. The first player then throws the dice and either enters two pegs, 0, into the apertures 1), corresponding to the numbers upon the dice thrown, or enters one peg into the aperture corresponding to the sum of the numbers. For instance, if 5 and 2 are turned up, a peg is placed into the aperture 5 and another into the aperture 2; or one peg is placed into the aperture 7. The number on one die may be used to move a peg and the number on the other die may be used to enter a peg. lfa shake of the dice is a doublet, the player not only can take the doublet shown, but likewise the under doublet on the other side of the dice. If the doublet is a 4, it is played as 4 and as 8. A peg must always be moved or entered, if possible; but there are cases when the player can do neither, and then the shake is lost. After the first player has thrown the dice the second player then plays in the same manner with his pegs upon the op posite side of the standard, and so on alternately. When either player has all his pegs entered he can throw ofi' each peg after it has been moved into the highest (15) aperture, as

follows: Whenever the sum ot'the dice turned up is 8 one peg can be thrown 0E; or if there is no peg in the 15 aperture the shake may be used in moving other pegs upward. Whenever the shake is a doublet one peg can be thrown off for the number upon the one die, and the number on the other die may be used in moving. The under doublet is then played in the same manner.- The player who throws off all his pegs first wins the game.

Game 2 is the same as the first game, observing that each play made when the sum of the dice turned is 8 and each play made when a doublet is turned will remove pegs of the opponent, and the pegs removed must The player whohimself throws oif all his pegs first wins the game.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A game apparatus made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of a standard provided with a series of rows of numbered apertures and a series of pegs fitting into the said apertures, as set forth.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination, with the base A, having apertures a, of the standard B, having a series of rows of numbered apertures, b, and of the pegs O, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a game apparatus, the combination, with the base A, having apertures, a, of. the standard B, having a series of rows of numbered apertures, 12, the pegs G, the truncated cones or cylinders D, having recesses in the upper ends, and of the dice-cups E, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

GEO. O. WARREN. Witnesses:

MARY E. WARREN, GRACE WARREN. 

